Dr. Craig Forest, Assistant Professor of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and Ed Boyden, associate professor at MIT Media Lab, working with Forest's graduate student Suhasa Kodandaramaiah, have developed a robotic system to record activity of a single neuron in the living brain using a tiny glass tube.The general technique, which has been around for about 30 years, is called "patch clamping," but this is the first time it has been fully automated through the assistance of a robot. The researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of this technique in living mice, both awake and asleep.
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